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A: Evolve Global Healthcare Enhanced Yield Fund, $20.63, symbol LIFE on Toronto (Units outstanding: 8.7 million; Market cap: $179.5 million; www.evolveetfs.com), aims to track the Solactive Global Healthcare 20 Index Canadian Dollar Hedged Index.

LIFE invests primarily in the stock holdings of that index....

Here’s Part One of the text of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients in July this year:

“You may recall hearing this common explanation for the poor outcome that the U.S. achieved in the Vietnam War:
“The problem is that the U.S....

At the heart of the ETF vs mutual funds pros and cons discussion is the fact that ETFs have much lower fees.

MERCK & CO. INC., $92.18, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

Merck has now exercised an option to jointly develop and potentially sell an mRNA-based cancer vaccine along with Moderna (symbol MRNA on Nasdaq).

The vaccine, mRNA-4157, is being tested in conjunction with Merck’s blockbuster cancer immunotherapy Keytruda, in a mid-stage trial....

This month we highlight a carbon credit ETF from TD Asset Management as well as an actively managed fintech ETF from Blackrock.


TD GLOBAL CARBON CREDIT INDEX ETF $36.87 (Toronto symbol TCBN) seeks to track the performance of a global carbon credit index, which measures the investment return of global cap-and-trade carbon emission credits.


The ETF passively tracks the Solactive Global Carbon Credit Index....

Indonesia’s 280 million citizens make it the world’s fourth-most-populous country and Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The nation’s successful and popular president was the first leader to emerge from outside of Indonesia’s military elite. His government is now focused on keeping the recovery from the pandemic on track.


ISHARES MSCI INDONESIA ETF $23.16 (New York symbol EIDO; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Aggressive; Market cap: $495.1 million) tracks the performance of a broad basket of publicly listed Indonesian companies.


The ETF holds a diversified portfolio of 82 stocks, but it is heavily concentrated in the top 10 which make up 62% of total assets....

With the current market troubles, many ETFs focused on emerging markets have dropped more than the overall markets. That’s in large part because a growing U.S. economy and sharply rising interest rates have pushed up the U.S. dollar. This typically results in capital flowing to the U.S....

Shares of commercial real estate specialist Colliers fell to $49 in March 2020 due to the onset of COVID-19. Now that the pandemic is easing, the stock has more than doubled. We feel Colliers can move even higher on rising demand for its services as offices re-open, or are converted to other uses such as residential units.


COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC....

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $18 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 309.1 million; Market cap: $5.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.7; Distribution yield: 5.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 202 shopping centres and other properties, including 12 currently under development....

In the second half of the 1990s, Walmart was a broker/media market favourite. It rose from around $10 a share in the mid-1990s, to around $70 by the start of the year 2000. Back then, Walmart stock was still featured in the broker/media limelight, and its P/E (per-share price to earnings ratio) was close to 50.0 to 1.0.

After that, a 17-year lull set in....